Funniest shit I’ve read in a long time.

Josh Cohen answers Dear Abby meets Drunken Writer questions over at the Paris Review.

Have you ever had a dream with characters from a book you read? Do you want to talk about this dream and win a free copy of Dennis Cooper’s Smothered In Hugs for doing so? Go here. Making dreams up is > okay.

In light of Roxane’s review, The Paris Review have kindly offered a discounted 1-year subscription to HTMLGiant readers: $28 for 4 issues, with the code GIANT12 entered during checkout via their website over the next two weeks.

Dammit these idiots are cool. (via NYT)

At The Faster Times, James Yeh provides an excellent & funny long gmail chat interview with former-Giant contributor, still-Giant-for-life Sam Pink on the occasion of his new novel PERSON from Lazy Fascist Press, which I can’t wait to get my hands on.

How do million dollar math prizes, kids with semi-automatics, a wine bottle full of ocean water, and a sculptor’s pet raven raise themselves in unison? In Werner Herzog’s eloquent and stirring remarks on sublimity is how.

OK, so how would you grade creative writing?

After a long hiatus, my friend Bryan and I have gathered enough material for a nice few months of updates for our prayer narrative web journal, On Earth As It Is. First up, HTML Giant’s own Kyle Minor.

Check out “In Room 208” by Stephen Collins, which won the 2010 Observer/Cape graphic short story prize.  It’s creepy and lovely.  A couple whose honeymoon is cut short by bad weather retreat to a hotel, where a strange inertia takes hold…